Improvement in stoppers for mucilage-holders



s. s. NEWTON; STOPPERS FOR MUCILAGE-HQLDERS. 193.023.

Patented July 10,1877.

NFEI'ERS, PHOTO LITHOGRA WASHINGTON, D:

' be screwed into the plug,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

STEPHEN S. NEWTON, OF B IN GHAMTON NEW YORK.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 193,023, dated July 10,1877; application filed April 26 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN S. NEwToN, of Binghamton, in the county ofBroome and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements inOorks for Bottles, of which the following is a specification The objectof my invention is to construct a stopper which shall be especiallyadapted for use in bottles containing liquid blacking, mucilage, orother similar material, which is apt to stick thecork to the neck of thebottle.

Figure 1 is-a perspective view of the upper part of a bottle having mystopper applied thereto. Fig. 2 isa vertical section. Fig. 3 is adetached view of the cork portion of the stopper, and Figs. 4 and 5 areplan views of the metal clamping-plate.

A is the bottle, which may be of any usual or approved construction.

B B is the wooden portion, B being a plug which enters the neckof thebottle, the part B having a projecting flange, made, by pref.- erence,wide enough to extend to the full external diameter of the neck. l

O is a cylinder or ring of cork or other elastic material fittingclosely the plug B and the neck of the bottle.

D is a stem or shank, arran ged centrally within the wooden part- B B.

This stem may or it may extend entirely through and be riveted at theupper end of part B, or it may be made wedgeshaped at its upper end anddriven into a hole through the wooden part from the upper end, and thehole above it plugged up, as shown, or other means may be adopted forsecuring it firmly in the plug.

E is a clamping-plate provided with pro- .inder and the shank D agaijecting points or spurs c, Fig. 4, or and a hole, a, to receive shank D.

After the shank D and elastic ring 0 have been applied to the part B Bthe clampingplate is forced into the position shown in Fig. 2, the spur.9 being turned up at right angles to the body of the plate and enteringthe part 0. The plate is now soldered fast to the shank.

It will be readily seen that this combination of parts renders thebreakage of the cork 0 almost impossible with ordinary handling.

When the plate shown in Fig. 5 is used the spur e may be driven into theplug B, thus locking the cylinder 0 to the plug, and materiallystrengthening or supporting the cylnst torsional strain ted around inthe e c, Fig. 5,

when the stopper is twis bottle.

For some purposes it wil to use a shank which exten in g-plate.

I do not wish to be limited particular material for the p I notbe-necessary ds below the clampto the useof any arts B B. C, but

regard wood and rubber the best for ordinary stoppers.

What I claim is- The combination of th plate E, rin set forth. Intestimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signature inpresence of two witnesses.

e shank D, clampingg (J, and plug B, substantially as STEPHEN S. NEWTON.

